User:Kim/reading/Alessandro Ludovico: Tactical Publishing

Using senses, Software and Archives in the twenty-first century, MIT Press 2023

The Realm of the Senses

close inspection of senses involved in physical and digital publications. Such as sight, hearing and smell. Interesting observations but very flat and fixed understanding of code based technologies.

• Tactility as primary reading interface
• The Material space of information

Nonhuman Writing

The role that software occupies in contemporary writing practice has gradually shifted from being infrastructural to being authorial.

• Oulipo: Writing as Process (potencial literature/ potenciality)

Software and language are intrinsially related since software may process language and is constructed in language. (Florian Cramer)

• Authorial: This chapter might have been written by a machine

Writing (even for print) is increasingly based digitally. These are based on software that set with their interfaces and functions set the boundaries of writing. We adapt to them as standards.

• Writing with the Machine: Machine as supportive System

If not writing with the machine, we delegate out responsibility not to the machine but the ones who programmed it.

Machines that make us think rather than thinking machines

amplify

Activist Post Truth Publishing

False Information that produces real events. (Bifo Berardi)

utterance

... in an online publishing ecology where the ratio of signal to noise is increasingly shifted toward the latter...

• Authorship, Remixes and Deepfakes

remix

scriptor (The Death of the Authors)

So the authors name remains at the contours of texts – separating one from the other, defining their form and characterising their mode of existence. (Focault, What is an author?)

• The Personal Network of Trust

Building trusted networks of people and sources

• Human Mesh Networks

We derive meaning relationally.

Endlessness: The digital publishing paradigm

Breaking boundaries of the book

Pre digital reading devices

• The digital endless collapse of content space

(turning page vs scrolling gesture)

• The endless publishing paradigm: space, time and memory
• Everything is news: Fragmenting information to digest more

Author proposes creation of limited, specific and reliable repositories to break with endless flow.

Libraries as cultural Guerrillas

• Printing the Internet

... trigger community oriented dynamics and unprecedented forms of circulation

• Temporary Libraries
• Liminal Librarianship

How we should Publish in the 21st Century

new importance for role of editor

integrate multiple media

differential texts

Are texts that exist in different material forms with no single version being the definite one (Marjorie Perloff).
What is Publishing?

Publishing is an act of mobilizing knowledge.